{"id":15432,"date":"2014-12-05T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T06:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15432"},"modified":"2015-06-02T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T05:22:21","slug":"the-flasharrow-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/the-flasharrow-crossover\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flash\/Arrow Crossover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The benefit of the \u201cArrow\u201d and \u201cThe Flash\u201d two night crossover, is that it emphasizes the contrast between both shows. While \u201cThe Flash\u201d is a hit series, and a spin off of \u201cArrow,\u201d it\u2019s also much lighter, brighter, and action packed than \u201cArrow\u201d which bases itself on a darker more revenge fueled storyline. Though the Greg Berlanti fueled shows have made it clear they\u2019re one in the same and will crossover from time to time, the contrast between two shows in the crossovers is made perfectly clear in this event. It may allow audiences to ultimately decide which series they prefer, or if they want to stick with both. I\u2019m choosing both, even though \u201cThe Flash\u201d has won me over in a season while it took \u201cArrow\u201d to win me over by the end of season two.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m much more of a fan of part one of the crossover \u201cFlash vs. Arrow\u201d than I was \u201cArrow\u2019s\u201d second half \u201cThe Brave and the Bold,\u201d simply because \u201cThe Flash\u201d is such an under emphasized superhero in the DC Universe, it\u2019s nice to see Barry Allen and the Fastest Man Alive get their due. In \u201cThe Flash,\u201d citizens of the city are being terrorized by a criminal whose flashing red eyes infuriate anyone he comes in contact with. They become very violent and impossible to control prompting many to kill them out of self defense. After Arrow saves The Flash during a mission to investigate the new meta-human, Barry meets up with Oliver, Diggle, and Felicity all of whom are now in the city to investigate a boomerang wielding criminal.<\/p>\n

Barry convinces Arrow to team up with him to solve each other\u2019s problems, even though Oliver warns Barry that they have vastly different crime fighting methods. Even worse, Oliver is concerned that Barry is overestimating his speed, which makes him reckless during combat. Barry proves him right when he attempts to confront the meta-human who flashes Barry his red eyes. Barry is seemingly unaffected at first, but soon begins to display gradual rage at just about everyone. It doesn\u2019t help that Iris is leaning more on her new boyfriend Eddie, who is suggesting a task force to stop the Flash. Oliver and the group realize too late that Barry has been affected, and stop him from nearly murdering Iris and Eddie, prompting an utterly incredible battle between Arrow and The Flash.<\/p>\n

Considering this is the CW and a television budget, the way the fight progresses between Arrow and the Flash is fantastic, filled with spotlights for both heroes, and ends in a tie. Arrow has experience, and Barry has speed, and for a moment it seems The Flash is about to throttle Arrow in to the ground until a machine involving light strobes allows Barry to come back from his rampage. Though in the end, he\u2019s lost the trust of Iris and is now being hunted by a task force led by Eddie Thawne. \u201cThe Brave and the Bold\u201d is much darker than the previous crossover, but it\u2019s a definite crossover now with Dr. Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon visiting Felicity to help deliver the DNA samples to help her solve the murder of Dinah Lance, and incidentally helping to fight Captain Boomerang. I\u2019ve always considered Flash\u2019s rogues to be especially corny, so it\u2019s a feat to see them depict Captain Boomerang as a really bad ass and vicious murderer, who is quick with his boomerang.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s after Diggle\u2019s wife, intent on revenge after the whole Suicide Squad fiasco, and Flash intervenes to help Arrow. What\u2019s shocking about the episode is how shocked Barry is at Arrow\u2019s methods of interrogation. He must have followed him for years before becoming a superhero, how did you not know he\u2019d use pain to get answers? In either case, Barry\u2019s enthusiastic help with the case makes for some great moments of action, and the interaction between Barry\u2019s group and Ollie\u2019s makes for memorable moments. This includes Cisco winning over Roy Harper, and Barry assembling the boomerang shards in a minute. All in all with the \u201cRocky III\u201d final scene, the CW compose a pretty excellent crossover of two damn good DC adaptations. I can only hope Batman v Superman is this good.<\/p>\n

And I am glad to see Firestorm make his first appearance. He\u2019s one of my favorite under-appreciated DC characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The benefit of the \u201cArrow\u201d and \u201cThe Flash\u201d two night crossover, is that it emphasizes the contrast between both shows. While \u201cThe Flash\u201d is a hit series, and a spin off of \u201cArrow,\u201d it\u2019s also much lighter, brighter, and action packed than \u201cArrow\u201d which bases itself on a darker more revenge fueled storyline. Though the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[58,1235,243,268,906,1061],"class_list":["post-15432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-tomb","tag-action","tag-arrow","tag-crossover","tag-dc-comics","tag-science-fiction","tag-the-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15434,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions\/15434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}